Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gabrielle Greeley Clendenin, daughter of the late Editor Horace Greeley of the oldtime New York Tribune, in an open letter to "My Dear Sisters of the South": "Do not think me intrusive in speaking to you, but recall how my father, Horace Greeley, came down after the Civil War, to...
DEMOCRATS Items Notable among Brown Derby campaign items of the week were the following: Arthur Smith Jr., 30-month-old grandchild, lifted up his small, lisping voice and sang "The Sidewalks of New York" for a "talkie" film at Albany. With Jefferson, the Great Dane, nearby, he was not afraid...
Another straw vote was harvested. Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of journalism, polled the executives of 925 newspapers throughout the U. S. Their composite prediction: Hoover, 16,271,276 popular and 387 electoral votes; Smith, 12,863,936 popular and 126 electoral votes. (126 electoral votes is low; John William Davis...
Stone Mountain, Georgia, is an awesome tidal wave of granite which rises above Atlanta. For more than twelve years various persons have schemed to carve upon its surface an overwhelming memorial to the South of the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis were to ride in...
The War of 1812 produced a belated but powerful effect on the Academy, for it brought the appointment in 1817 of Major Thayer as superintendent, and an increase of the enrolment to 260. The easy-going discipline of the first years gave way to military exactitude, and this strict master...